Both sides have reacted passionately to the Bush administration’s announcement of a crack down on those who hire illegal immigrants.
But is this really a crackdown or not? Talk show host Tammy Bruce (who has been clamoring for a hard line) says it’s merely a political shell game.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.